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TAN: Software Questions - Mandala Diagrams
by Dan Kline 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Many thanks for the suggestions so far- And forgive the slight digression here. I think I might have had something like Mandala diagrams in mind. I actually remember seeing on some History or Discovery Channel type show a software package used to track phone numbers, etc. for linking criminal syndicates together. The phone numbers were listed around the circumference of a circle and then each number was linked to every other with a line across the circle, and the color of the line indicated the strength of the connection (in number of calls placed or received). It looked like a nifty way to see a variety of relationships within a coherent body of material. I wonder if anything like that is available for analyzing language. Does anyone have any experience with the software used in the Canterbury Tales Project? dkline ____________________________________ Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English U of Alaska Anchorage (PSB 212-C) 3211 Providence Drive Anchorage, Alaska 99508 907-786-4364 | afdtk(a)uaa.alaska.edu The Electronic Canterbury Tales: http://afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu/ect_main.htm "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."

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Digital presses
by Dan O'Donnell 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Hi all, I have a question: we all know presses that publish CD-ROMs of textual projects, and some graphics projects. But what about things like corpora, linguistic research, dictionaries, and other digital material that are not intended as representations of primary sources? I can think of some obvious examples (e.g. the DOE, I suppose the OED); but what about projects on a smaller scale? Any ideas? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Associate Professor and Chair of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox: +1 403 329 2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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[Fwd: [MEDIEV-L:50049] Genealogical software]
by Daniel O'Donnell 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

This seems like an appropriate question for this forum. Though a bit out of the usual type of discussion. Any suggestions? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Two Open Literature Positions at the University of Lethbridge
by Daniel O'Donnell 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Apologies for cross-posting. I'd like to call members of this list's attention to two vacancies at the University of Lethbridge: http://www.uleth.ca/hum/Services/career_fac/English_Academic_Assistant_Nove… I believe these are quite unusual positions and they may be of great interest to some on this list. They are probationary teaching positions focusing entirely on English literature. The probationary period is for two years at which point successful candidates will be given a continuing (i.e. permanent) contract. The rank is Academic Assistant (Instructor). The positions are still subject to budgetary approval. We expect the focus of the positions will be junior-level (first and second year) literary and genre courses. Candidates with a PhD will be eligible to teach senior level courses in their area of specialisation. We do not anticipate any composition component (composition is handled by a different unit), there is no research requirement, and the course load is 3:3:1 or equivalent. We are willing to consider almost any area of specialisation. Among the areas where we have senior level courses open is Middle English. We don't have any Digital Humanities courses at the moment, though as hosts of the Digital Medievalist, we are active in the field. What we are looking for in these positions are people who are enthusiastic and innovative post-secondary teachers. The jobs would be particularly well suited to PhD holders who love to teach but are less interested in maintaining an active research program. We will expect the successful candidates to stay current with contemporary developments in pedagogy and their discipline. The position is open to all qualified applicants including those without Canadian citizenship or residency although preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Application details can be found by following the link above. The closing date is February 15th, 2007. But please feel free to contact the chair of the department informally if you'd like to discuss the positions. The Department Chair is Daniel Paul O'Donnell (i.e. me). -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Software question
by Dan Kline 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi, folks- Please forgive if this is a pure newby question. I'm looking to do some analysis of a large body of poetry, and I'd like to be able to sort according to individual words and then map those usages against other terms to map out their relationships. I'd also like to be able to tag the terms in a number of ways, especially according to date of appearance. I know I've run across references to software that allows this kind of thing (other than just fancy SQL programming), but I can't call any of it to mind. Anyone know of any easily accessible and not too expensive software that does this kind of thing? Or is my memory completely faulty? Thx, and best from Anchorage, Dan ____________________________________ Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English U of Alaska Anchorage (PSB 212-C) 3211 Providence Drive Anchorage, Alaska 99508 907-786-4364 | afdtk(a)uaa.alaska.edu The Electronic Canterbury Tales: http://afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu/ect_main.htm "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."

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sos
by Pierluigi Carnesecchi 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

un saluto a tutti non parlo inglese ho il sito http://digilander.libero.it/gasparo/indice.htm cerco notizie sui Carnesecchi fiorentini grazie cordialmente pierluigi c.

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numbering lines
by Murray McGillivray 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Folks, I have a number of text files of poetry that I'd like to add line numbers to for concordancing, starting the numbering at 1 and continuing to the last text line, with the line numbers ending up as part of the resulting text file, each number on the relevant line before the text of that line of verse begins. I've done this before a few times a while ago, but danged if I can remember what I used. I know I didn't write anything to do it, though I assume it's pretty easy to do so. I think it was in a text editor or word processor, but looking at vi and emacs it looks like I can only get the line numbers to display with the file, not to be added to the file, and that's true of some Windows ones as well and of Word, unless there are tricks. The UNIX/Linux "nl" utility does basically what I want (if I pipe the output to a file, I get my text file back but with a line number and a tab added to the beginning of each line), and I can deal with the output but I remember (possibly from one of those technicolor dreams--you'll let me know!) a more interactive, less command-liney, way of doing this that would make this stage easier. Thanks for any help. Murray McGillivray

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The Heroic Age
by Larry Swain 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

The editors and board of The Heroic Age would like to announce the release of our latest issue, Issue 9: Oswald, King and Saint: His Britain and Beyond. The issue may be found by pointing your browser to www.heroicage.org and clicking on Current Issue. Please also take note of our Call for Papers for future issues. Larry J. Swain Editor in Chief The Heroic Age www.heroicage.org -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Access or Excel
by Abdullah Alger 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Dear all, I would like to ask for advice whether I should use MS Access or Excel for data crunching. I have been using Excel for some work I am doing on Old English poetry where I am looking at specific features of a fixed set of poems. However, I have decided also to look at other aspects of the same set of poems. To put it in a nutshell, I have three sets of data I want to compare concerning the same poems in order to see where the trends are. I know how to use Excel fairly well - at least to get statistical information - but I have been getting into trouble when trying to find trends across several sets of data. I thought about pivot tables, but I am not sure if that's the way to go, when I think that I may be able to do things easier in Access - even though I don't know anything about how to use it. Which application would you suggest I use? Best, Abdullah Alger

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Content Management Systems again
by Daniel O'Donnell 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hi all, I thought I'd report on my experiments with Content Management Systems for my professional web space. I tried out Textpattern http://www.textpattern.com/ and Drupal http://www.drupal.org/. Both are open source, mysql- and php-content management systems. Drupal is by far the more widely used, more flexible, and customisable; textpattern is far more simple, somewhat limited in its organisation (it is really a blogging system that is transforming to a more general CMS). Both work under the major server software, and so are compatible with anything your university or IP is likely to be running. I tried the two systems out on my home (debian/ubuntu linux) and University (a combination of Redhat enterprise linux and MS) servers using mysql. Textpattern set up extremely well under the two conditions (at home, I have root access to everything; at work, I have very limited privileges to the server or the database). Drupal was more problematic, and I never really did get it working exactly the way I wanted. I needed to hack one aspect of textpattern--I need a relatively static front page, and it is set up so the front page works as an RSS server--and I am having trouble with outputting search results. But otherwise I am very happy with it. I was also pleased that textpattern designers tended to use better CSS than drupal designers, though both allow you to use your own CSS. I think if I were setting up a community site, I'd work at getting drupal to work: it looks like the more sophisticated program. For my professional homepage, though I had quite specific needs--good xhtml output, a wiki-based editor, and relatively painless set up. Apart from the hack, textpattern did everything I wanted. Here's the URL to the new website if you want to see it: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ There is very little content at the new site as yet, as I only added the stuff I absolutely needed right now. But adding material is extremely easy. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative, http://www.tei-c.org/ Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox: +1 403 329-2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191

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